Quotes about Society
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
- Peter Drucker
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
- St. Augustine
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
- Abraham Lincoln
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.
- Abraham Lincoln